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Our go to place the last couple of years has been the Best Western Plus. Large breakfast buffet, two large outdoor hot tubs. Liquor store if you require it. Parking not the best but you can always park in the Sandman inn overflow lot. The breakfast buffet is the best around, would probably pay at least $15 per person for it
 

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We used to have some great parties at the Inn On The Border cheap rooms and drinks and food was fantastic miss those days 300 dollars for the weekend
Yep Stayed there a few times too. Had those little rooms upstairs and the place was heated with wood pellets. Always smelled like a campfire in there which we loved. I think they used to make you a bagged lunch too to take with you on the ride. Forgot about that place.
 

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This thread brings back some amazing memories. We used to drive 14 hours from Regina to Revy. 4 in a truck with a 4 place trailer loaded. Stayed at the Powder Springs Inn. They had sledders rates. They used to charge per person and it was $13.00 per night per person and it included a buffet breakfast in the restaurant they had there. The rooms were a dump but they had kitchens in them and they would let us use their big commercial clothes dryer to dry our gear every night. The buffet was actually decent too. Had eggs, pancakes and all the bacon you could eat. My one buddy was a bacon freak and he would eat $13.00 worth of bacon every breakfast LOL.. We knew at the time that they were losing money every time we showed up but they kept the pricing for a few years before they increased it. I remember one year laughing because we called and they apologized for increasing the rates to $20.00 per head per night and it still included the breakfast LOL. You couldn't live at home for what it cost to stay there. Is that place still there?
I remember paying $26/night/person there. Same deal though. The shower heads at bellybutton height was a pain though.
 

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This thread brings back some amazing memories. We used to drive 14 hours from Regina to Revy. 4 in a truck with a 4 place trailer loaded. Stayed at the Powder Springs Inn. They had sledders rates. They used to charge per person and it was $13.00 per night per person and it included a buffet breakfast in the restaurant they had there. The rooms were a dump but they had kitchens in them and they would let us use their big commercial clothes dryer to dry our gear every night. The buffet was actually decent too. Had eggs, pancakes and all the bacon you could eat. My one buddy was a bacon freak and he would eat $13.00 worth of bacon every breakfast LOL.. We knew at the time that they were losing money every time we showed up but they kept the pricing for a few years before they increased it. I remember one year laughing because we called and they apologized for increasing the rates to $20.00 per head per night and it still included the breakfast LOL. You couldn't live at home for what it cost to stay there. Is that place still there?
There were some awesome parties in the ol "powder" Springs. I recall if paid you for 2 nights the 3rd was free in the spring. We used to get the 2 rooms upstairs that bedrooms in them. I don't recall ever getting a complaint from the front desk. We had half the regent in those rooms sometimes. Hard to believe the copshop was across the street.
 

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Yeah Powder Springs was the place back in the day, they even had a massage therapist there for a while. Easy walking distance to Regent, Stokers, the Rock Pit and stumble back, good times. I don’t remember it being the nicest place but it was always clean. What kinda shape is that place in now? I’d imagine if it hasn’t had a Reno it would be pretty rough. A lot of memories flooding back after reading this thread, I can only imagine how much I can’t remember lol. 🍻
 

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Yeah Powder Springs was the place back in the day, they even had a massage therapist there for a while. Easy walking distance to Regent, Stokers, the Rock Pit and stumble back, good times. I don’t remember it being the nicest place but it was always clean. What kinda shape is that place in now? I’d imagine if it hasn’t had a Reno it would be pretty rough. A lot of memories flooding back after reading this thread, I can only imagine how much I can’t remember lol.

What kind of massage? Lol, my back isn’t sore but………..


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Yeah Powder Springs was the place back in the day, they even had a massage therapist there for a while. Easy walking distance to Regent, Stokers, the Rock Pit and stumble back, good times. I don’t remember it being the nicest place but it was always clean. What kinda shape is that place in now? I’d imagine if it hasn’t had a Reno it would be pretty rough. A lot of memories flooding back after reading this thread, I can only imagine how much I can’t remember lol. 🍻

Ah the memories! That used to be the absolute go-to when we got into revy sledding. Brekkie was awesome, the old fukker would read out the weather report for the cat ski slab drivers, and the pub was good!

…..then the ski hill opened. With that came getting fumigated out of your room at 7am and 7pm by the electric lettuce and a whole new vibe. No renos, prices went up like crazy, we GTFO’d for better spots.
 

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Cops also drop off people at the Gateway. I stayed there for 20 years plus. Now it’s full of junkies bedbugs rats. Disgusting.
Remember the big rooms they had , 2 beds in there own , one in the open with the big area

Was the tits till the China man bought it

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Ive stayed there a couple times. It use to be not too bad. I don't know why Revy of all place's is getting these crackheads shipped in.

Ive talked to a few and they weren't from the area....
Highway 1 , between hongcouver and cow town

Salmon arm hospital shows all the transients lol , as they pass through

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They're shipping them in from the coast because Vancouver can't handle the volume and can't afford to house them. Welcome to a socialist NDP govt. Casually ship them to become someone else's problem. They used to just let them out of the prison and they'd eventually find their way back to the coast. They did this in a lot in Oliver too after they built the new prison, and eventually the govt bought a motel and converted it to get them to stay, thinking they would become seasonal workers for the orchards. Guess what happened instead? The dealers just moved to the Okanagan. Same thing happened in Prince George.

They're shipping them farther inland now because the municipalities are fighting with the provincial govt to get more funding. Govt knows they can't fund it all because they are broke, so relocate the problem and put their heads in the sand. Trail is going to build them a shelter right next to a daycare because they don't have any more affordable housing. There are at least 6-8 full on year round van / camper set ups at the campground beside the lower Gorman parking lot in Golden right now. Took a drive through there on Sunday and one guy has a mini house in there and a couple cords of wood stacked up. Things are going to get worse before they get better unfortunately. Lock up your sh!t when sledding this season.
Not so much p.g

It's quesnel, Vancouver sends all the crackheads to the reform place there

Hence why queernell has the 2nd highest crime rate in Canada

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I remember when we would put 4 in a truck drive all night to save a hotel stay ride like a bag of smashed assholes the first day then the 4 of us would nestle into our double queen bed room at 80 a night with free breakfast lol big sliptank in the truck full of farm diesel and nitto mudd grapplers on the truck, no avy bags walmart walkie talkies wernt the smartest back then but still have some great stories. 4 days of riding was like 500 bucks a guy per trip. The glory days
Ohhhh the good old days , stumbling down the road to best Western from strokers , the Rock pit , regent

Shittered trying to walk up and over the snow hill at chevron , bahhhh

Them memories lol

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Remember the big rooms they had , 2 beds in there own , one in the open with the big area

Was the tits till the China man bought it

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We offered William 50 grand for five winters on one of those big apartments. 2Double queen in the main area with TV and then two queen bedrooms. Those rooms were sick. I actually became really good friends with William from the Gateway. He was a pretty cool Chinaman
Back in those days I was doing 25-30 trips a season. we would call last minute and I swear he kicked out skiers to get us a room lol
 

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We offered William 50 grand for five winters on one of those big apartments. 2Double queen in the main area with TV and then two queen bedrooms. Those rooms were sick. I actually became really good friends with William from the Gateway. He was a pretty cool Chinaman
Back in those days I was doing 25-30 trips a season. we would call last minute and I swear he kicked out skiers to get us a room lol
I assume you know jack Ron doo

Used to ride with him and his crew way back when

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Not so much p.g

It's quesnel, Vancouver sends all the crackheads to the reform place there

Hence why queernell has the 2nd highest crime rate in Canada

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Quesnel has gotten really bad for this. Just finished a few projects there and luckily not many incidents but lots of people strolling around
 

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Quesnel has gotten really bad for this. Just finished a few projects there and luckily not many incidents but lots of people strolling around
I worked down down , seen at least 3 o.d's right out front in the year I worked there

Friggin cracking out mid day

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